1957 Movies

A skimpy plot---hunting for sunken treasure in the waters of Florida and Haiti--- tied mostly to some underwater scenes shot in the safety of Cypress...

Film promoting advertising in Redbook as the best way to reach young suburban consumers, a growing demographic of the late 1950s. It makes the point t...

This video was produced by Fr. Patrick Peyton, the famous “Family Rosary Crusade” priest. It is a full-scale drama of the Joyful mysteries of the Rosa...

Focuses on the drawings by Marguerite Bonnevay who lived in a village outside Paris at the turn of the century.

Shows the relationship of the Constitution to the issue of prior restraint on freedom of expression. Presents the case of Burstyn v. Wilson challengin...

Tells about two children who eagerly await the birth of a family of kittens. Covers an eight-week span, showing the kittens being born, learning to cr...

It portrays love between a child and a dog. Just when the dog was caught by a dog catcher, the boy asks the man to let it go and thus he saves the ani...

1950's road safety short film.

Discusses how the emotional and physical development of children from ten to twelve years manifests itself in their behavior, their attitudes toward t...

The first ever Cambodian feature film.

Educational short

Adults must provide teenagers with guidance in social skills if they are to make a harmonious adjustment to social life. The mother and daughter in th...

The story of Dave, an emotionally unstable adolescent who cannot accept that his girlfriend has quit going steady with him and the football coach has...

Driven by his attraction to Layonsari, the King orders his adopted son, Jayaprana, who is Layonsari's husband, to go far away to battle insurgents. Me...

Africa and Schweitzer is a rarely-seen, excellent documentary made while Albert Schweitzer was still alive. Narrated by Lowell Thomas and photographed...

A man is strangled to death and then dumped in a car.

Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned by the Moral Re-Armament Association. Based on a st...

Details of the life of Juan Ponce de León, founder of the city of San Juan and first governor of Puerto Rico.